Adventure
How can I stay warm winter camping?
I received a zero-degree down sleeping bag over the holidays and I'm...
A gentle hand: Boulderite Jan Mitchell makes a difference in Africa
Jan Mitchell is going to have to buy a donkey for a family in Ghana. It’s good news. Two years ago, she gave the family a bull to replace one that died after rocks were thrown at it to chase it out of a garden. She promised that if, when she returned, the bull was ...
No man overboard
The issues veterans face are — in some ways — as big and unmanageable as the Colorado River running through Cataract Canyon this spring. At up to 58,000 cubic feet per second, it was flipping so many rafts that passengers in a 12-foot paddleboat just had to expect to...
A quest for honest heroes
If you were going to go to war over a mountain, Cerro Torre would be the one to do it for...
Nature’s already cool
A giant picture of a 9-year-old kid is projected onto the east wall of Denver’s flagship REI. He’s wearing a backwards hat, a popped...
Kidnapped in Caracas
Three, two, one, bang. It is that fast. Traveling involuntarily through the most contrasting realities. Traveling through the opposite side of my life in my own country. Just when distraction hit me, just in one fearless blink and smile in the middle of the night, I ...
BIFF: Get over your Everest ennui
A great plotline is nothing without a character — one that generates an emotional investment, one we continue to care about long after the final pages of a book or final frames of film. The stories of the men — and in this case, one particular woman — who went to ...
Boulder hosts national climbing championship
A rowdy throng of spectators crowded into Boulder’s Movement Climbing and Fitness on Saturday night to watch Sasha Digiulian and Magnus Midtbø win the 2011 Sport Climbing Series National Championship, the precursor to the International Federation of Sport Climbing ...
There are some special people here
If you want to be on the silver screen you move to Los Angeles, and if you want to break into musical theater you head to New York City...
Boulder has strong presence in upcoming Olympic games
Just like Boulder seems to support more than the typical per capita number of bike shops and running shoe stores, this year’s Olympics, which begin on Friday, July 27, in London, will see a stunning 11 competitors from Boulder — all of them cycling or running after ...
Don’t let obstacles be an obstacle
Before you stop reading this because you see the word “parkour” and think you know what it is (leaping over the airy gaps between...


















